Category Archives: Thank You To Our Sponsors

Celebrating the Success of 2018

Stephen Schram,
General Manager & Executive Director

We are ringing in 2019 with excitement for what is to come and gratitude for the successes we’ve realized at Michigan Radio in the last year. Our corporate sponsors are essential to providing the financial support that allows Michigan Radio to serve our audience as a trusted source of journalism in Michigan. In 2018, our corporate sponsors provided 23% of our annual revenue.

We are also reflecting on our accomplishments from 2018, most notably and recently, the resounding success of the Believed podcast produced and hosted by Michigan Radio reporters Kate Wells and Lindsay Smith. Believed told the story of the sexual assault of hundreds of girls by USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar and explored how those young women found their power when well-meaning adults failed them. Believed is also the first podcast that has been entirely produced by a member station and distributed in partnership by NPR.  The nine episode podcast has been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times by listeners across the country. In its October 2018 debut, Believed became the # 1 podcast in the U.S. (source: itunescharts.net) 

Now, we look forward to 2019, to more groundbreaking reporting and partnerships. For example, Michigan Radio will be participating in the new initiative 1A Across America.  Over the course of two years, Michigan Radio and five other public media stations will work closely with 1A host Joshua Johnson and their production team to source stories, conduct live broadcasts and events, produce collaborative content and elevate local journalism here in Michigan. 

Corporate sponsorship is an essential part of how Michigan Radio is able to continue to excel. YOUR support helps us remain the most listened to public radio service in the state. If you were part of the Michigan Radio corporate sponsorship family in 2018, I thank you for your support. If we have yet to host your corporate message on the station, I invite you to make that commitment for a better, brighter and prosperous year ahead. 

Thank you for your support of Michigan Radio.

Steve Schram, Executive Director and General Manager at Michigan Radio

Featured Sponsor: Calvin College

By Gail Heffner, Ph.D., Director of Community Engagement

Guest Blogger

gail-heffner-headshotCalvin College, a Christian liberal arts college ranked #1 in the Midwest*, has called Michigan home since its founding in 1876. We are rooted in this vibrant state, with branches of influence across Michigan and around the globe. Indeed, our continuing partnership with Michigan Radio—an organization that reaches communities in Michigan and beyond—is a natural fit.

Over half of the students that Calvin serves are from households in Michigan. We are proud to educate so many students and families from our great state alongside students from 47 other states, 5 Canadian provinces and 61 other countries.

dsc_0097Calvin is committed to investing deeply in the “mitten state,” from community nursing to business partnerships, ACT tutoring to low-income tax assistance, service-learning with nonprofits to environmental stewardship of our land and resources.  Our Plaster Creek Stewards initiative is one example. Calvin College faculty, students and community partners have been working together to restore health and beauty to the Plaster Creek waterway in West Michigan.

It makes sense that Michigan Radio is the place Calvin turns to get the word out about our world-class concerts, in-depth conferences and seminars, and the January Series: an annual lecture lineup deemed “fifteen days of a free liberal arts education.” We welcome many Michigan Radio listeners to our events, listeners who join us in being inquisitive about new ideas, hungry for truth, and passionate about solutions.

Thank you, Michigan Radio and listeners statewide, for participating in our community, whether through an hour-long event, four years of study, or a lifetime of learning.

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Featured Sponsor: Allergy & Immunology Associates of Michigan

By Jeff Leflein, MD, Allergy & Immunology Associates of Michigan

Guest Blogger

AIA LefleinJeffreyFor over 30 years Allergy & Immunology Associates of Michigan has been a part of the medical community in southeast Michigan and has supported Michigan Radio since 2007.  Through sponsorship, Michigan Radio has allowed us to share throughout its listening audience that relief is available through diagnosis and advanced treatment for individuals suffering from allergies and asthma at our offices in West Bloomfield, Livonia, Novi, Brighton, Canton, Chelsea, and Ann Arbor.

 Our board certified physicians are dedicated to making life with allergies and asthma as comfortable and manageable as possible for our adult and pediatric patients.  This commitment is demonstrated in our community services, cutting edge clinical research team, and as well as in our clinical offices.

 Michigan matters to us. For years we have been working with local public and private schools and child care facilities to provide food allergy education by speaking to teachers and staff to provide safe school environments.   Our doctors played a major role in “EpiPens for School Program” so every public school throughout Michigan has life-saving doses of epinephrine.  Our physicians have remained active in both local and national events investigating the latest research discoveries and treatments.

 Michigan Radio is important to us as well.  As listeners, we are well aware of the profoundly valuable service that their journalism provides to the citizens of this state.  Using Michigan Radio to spread the word about our services just makes sense: we are able to reach an audience that is receptive and in need of our service while at the same time providing financial support to a cause that we care about.  There is no doubt that our relationship with Michigan Radio has nurtured the growth of this practice.

 As we expand, adding offices and physicians to serve our patients, we can be confident that our message on Michigan Radio is being heard across the state, in all the areas that we provide service.  When we open a new space in a community, the residents there have already heard our message on Michigan Radio, since we have been a long time sponsor.

 We expect to continue our mutually favorable relationship with Michigan Radio going forward, as Allergy & Immunology Associates grows to reach and serve the needs of our state’s citizens.

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Featured Sponsor – Charles Reinhart Company Realtors

Charles Reinhart Company Realtors has always set the bar high.  By focusing on quality, they’ve been able to create a family of customers that crosses generations.  Not only are their clients family, but their agents stick around because they are happy to be a part of an organization with a reputation for outstanding service.

Charles Reinhart Company Realtors also has a long history of providing support to charitable organizations.  When the opportunity arose for them to offer support to Michigan Radio nearly twenty years ago, they saw sponsorship as a win-win.

Dave Lutton

Dave Lutton

“We’re able to support the best in journalism while reaching our target audience: educated, influential and engaged listeners all over the southern half of Michigan,” says Dave Lutton, President of Charles Reinhart Company Realtors.

Michigan Radio and Charles Reinhart Realtors have been working together steadily since that first conversation in 1998. Building on this mutually beneficial relationship, Charles Reinhart Realtors proves that they really do have an extended family which includes Michigan Radio.

 

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